****Official Class of 2017 Recruiting Thread****
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You would think with oil prices tanking it would have been a tougher year for recruiting.
Clearly T Boone has diversified
Well it's still a long shot but this has to help out us with Sexton bc he had Okie St in a summer visit. So okie St got their PG, ISU still needs one. So guess stay tuned...
Ha, give it a break bud. I fully understand why the current players were gone, and why the recruit visits were cancelled. My whole point, again, is that who knows if we will end getting these guys to visit again? While their visit to Ames was cancelled, they are now moving forward with going to other places and could end up losing interest in ISU or committing elsewhere. Just a tough break for ISU not to be able to get visits from a couple of its top targets.
Or they might just come later. But hey, CCL is starting, recruiting is tanking, we don't have any scorers for 2017/18, we're by far the luckiest Sweet 16 team in America because we play zero defense, never rebound, and miss every free throw. ISU Basketball is back.
Top performers of the Top 100 camp. ISU mentioned for Tillman
https://twitter.com/BSnowScout/status/743449541882568704
https://twitter.com/BSnowScout/status/743449541882568704
That's the hardest part for Iowa State is actually getting the guys to visit. It is still baffling to me that a program that has turned into a perennial tournament team and has been the top 25 so long still struggles signing top ranked recruits.
Georges, Monte, MT, Custer, Noskowiak, J. Long, Lard...these I would all call "top ranked" as in top 150...for a program based on transfers that also isn't afraid of a JUCO I'd say that's sufficient. Not to mention a very untimely coaching change thrown in there. We've only been re-established for like 4 years nationally.
That's 7 spread out over a 5 year period. There are schools much worse than use that somehow pull in 2-4 of those guys per year, and proceed to do absolutely nothing with them (Oklahoma State, LSU, UNLV, Ohio State..). It just seems like recruiting to ISU should be easier than it currently is.
Location
Coaching change with bad timing (summer)
Lack of a heavy hitter HS recruiter with the exception of TJ's intermittent time here
Those are the main reasons why we've struggled on the HS trail.
If Fred would have stayed, and had he replaced TJ's spot with another proficient HS recruiter, our list would look WAY different.
Coaching change with bad timing (summer)
Lack of a heavy hitter HS recruiter with the exception of TJ's intermittent time here
Those are the main reasons why we've struggled on the HS trail.
If Fred would have stayed, and had he replaced TJ's spot with another proficient HS recruiter, our list would look WAY different.
How are those schools "worse"? 2 southern schools, UNLV, and The OSU. They are draws in themselves, and their recent success is on par or better than ours bar LSU which that school is a destination school for kids from all over the south.
Tell me about MN, Marquette, Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, KSU, etc,...schools that we're akin to.
Not sure if mentioned, but Collin Sexton made the U17 National Team
http://collegebasketball.nbcsports.com/2016/06/14/usa-u17-national-team-announced/
http://collegebasketball.nbcsports.com/2016/06/14/usa-u17-national-team-announced/
I would cross Noskowiak ( no one wanted him because he was a head case) off that list as well as Long and Lard. I consider top ranked recruits top 100 kids on Rivals or at least 4 star kids.
Go look at other schools in the conference that have been good over the last 4 years and look at the high school recruits they are able to get. It is even worse if you look at other conferences. Look at the top 100 recruits on rivals. Here is a sampling of schools that have at least 1 four star recruit in the last class:
Auburn
Alabama
Miss. State
Arizona State
Umass
VCU
Penn State
Minnesota
St. Johns
TCU
Oregon State
Northwestern
You would think ISU would get better recruits than these schools. Heck Washington gets really great recruits and they haven't been to the tournament for probably 5 years. If you want to know why Kansas has dominated the Big 12 look at their recruiting classes compared to the rest of the league. I think it is also why the big 12 has struggled in the tournament. Not enough top end talent.